Manga are Comic Books I'm going have to side with LosingOrbit, It's just a different way of calling something, notthing serious. I think it's fine to communicate manga with words such as, graphic novels, comic books, tankōbons, Japanese comics, books, BD (Bandes dessinées), and etc.
If we want to look at it more closely the Japanese word for "comic" is "manga"

Manga are Comic Books I'm going have to side with LosingOrbit, It's just a different way of calling something, notthing serious. I think it's fine to communicate manga with words such as, graphic novels, comic books, tankōbons, books, BD (Bandes dessinées), and etc. If we want to look at it more closely the Japanese word for "comic" is "manga"

no need for the tongue, but tanks for the info..btw u said bande dessinees, do u speak french!!!

oh and one more think..i personally think that mangas and comic books are different...i mean many mangas have that reality feeling..but as for comic books...how many times a day are you goin to c someone riskin his life to save u????

Maybe if we look up the dictionaries and all, manga and comics are basically the same. They're part of the big family I guess, but I think there's something we've missed. In my opinion, manga has been redefined as Japanese graphical novels while comic books still retain its original meaning, or at least that's how I view them both. By original, I mean comedy artwork in the form of comic strips.